Vision unveiled for London school powered by Thames tide
Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture has drawn up plans for "London's greenest public building", a school that would be entirely powered using the tidal movements of the River Thames. More
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Studio B pairs weathering steel with red cedar for extension to remote Colorado school
Earthy materials and soft interior light define these new buildings that American firm Studio B created for a primary school situated in an American mountain valley. More
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Big-top tents inform building for America's first circus degree programme
Traditional, round circus tents influenced the design of this performance and educational facility for the circus arts, designed by US studio Höweler + Yoon Architecture. More
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Red cycle path by NEXT and Rudy Uytenhaak snakes over Utrecht school and canal
This vivid red bicycle track was designed by NEXT Architects and Rudy Uytenhaak Architectenbureau to wind over the roof of a school in the Dutch city of Utrecht, and continues to bridge over a canal. More
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Hevia García and Urzúa give Chilean school a new look with light chimneys and metal cladding
Architects Guillermo Hevia García and Nicolás Urzúa Soler have overhauled a school in central Chile, adding large skylights to an existing building and creating a new pavilion with a glass wall. More
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MIT named world's top architecture school for third year
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has taken the number one spot as world's leading architecture school for the third year running, according to new global rankings. More
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Hibinosekkei installs micro-house in Japanese kindergarten to encourage independent play
Japanese studio Hibinosekkei has added a small wooden playhouse to a kindergarten in the city of Saga to encourage independent domestic role play. More
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Walls with integrated furniture and yellow nooks encourage play in Madrid school
Children can nestle into yellow alcoves and pull wooden furniture out of the walls at this school in Madrid by Rica Studio, which uses play to teach the English language. More
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FEA Studio installs "cloud-like" sports hall in mountainous landscape of northern Iran
The corners of this aluminium-clad sports hall near the Iranian city of Bastam lift up from the earth to lend the irregular form a "cloud-like" appearance. More
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Walters & Cohen covers housing for English boarding house in rusty-red tiles
Handmade clay tiles cover this gabled accommodation block, which London firm Walters & Cohen has added to a boarding school in the English city of Canterbury. More
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FAAB proposes "smog-eating" music school for Kraków
Polish studio FAAB has developed a concept for a music school in Kraków featuring angular volumes covered with a mossy roof designed to absorb large amounts of airborne pollutants. More
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Selgascano-designed pavilion transformed into school for Kenya's Kibera slum
A colourful pavilion designed by Spanish architect duo Selgascano has been shipped from a Copenhagen art museum to Africa's largest slum, where it now serves as a school for 600 orphaned children. More
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South Melbourne Primary School will feature no formal classrooms says architect Ann Lau
In our final movie from the World Architecture Festival 2016, architect Ann Lau explains how Australian firm Hayball plans to create collaborative learning spaces in the Melbourne school that was named Future Project of the Year last month. More
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Law Architects creates "homesteads" to house Woodleigh School teaching spaces
A+Awards: this trio of small buildings, which were lauded at the 2016 Architizer A+Awards, were designed by Australian firm Law Architects for an independent school on the Mornington Peninsula. More
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Shingle-clad school by (Se)arch Architekten is set around a cobbled courtyard
Stuttgart studio (Se)arch Architekten has completed a school and daycare centre in the German town of Tübingen, featuring cedar-shingled facades and a cobbled entrance courtyard. More
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Herzog & de Meuron wins contest for new Royal College of Art campus
Herzog & de Meuron has been selected to design the new Royal College of Art campus in Battersea, southwest London. More
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Walters & Cohen combines fluted stone and glass at London's American School
Fluted stone panels form a frame around a huge window in the facade of this building designed by Walters & Cohen Architects for the American School in London. More
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Charles Tashima Architecture creates cabinet of curiosities inside school science laboratory
A wooden ladder leads up to a set of white cabinets filled with animal bones, plants and a preserved tarantula in this science laboratory designed by Charles Tashima Architecture for a London primary school. More
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Tibetan school in China is clad is stone to match mountainous setting
Chinese studio Livil Architects has added a monolithic stone-clad canteen featuring cave-like interiors and an office building to a school in the town of Batang, Tibet. More
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CEBRA completes Danish school with jagged roofs and stripy green walls
Vibrant green stripes and angular roofs add character to the exterior of this school that architecture firm CEBRA has completed in Aabybro, Denmark (+ slideshow). More
